For The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan is writing a series of articles exploring China “from Mao to Xi.” In his most recent piece, he profiles historian Yang Jisheng who has produced groundbreaking research on the Great Leap Forward and subsequent famine, which has never been fully acknowledged or accounted for by the government:
Fighting this amnesia has, over the past 25 years, become a mission for Yang Jisheng (73). The veteran Chinese journalist and writer has, over